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From Meditating to Scheduling Self-Care on Her Calendar, Here's How Paula Abdul Gets Performance-Ready (8/23/2019)
(Las Vegas) -- Paula Abdul kicked off her new Las Vegas residency “Paula Abdul: Forever Your Girl” at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino on August 13 and she...
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The legend of ‘Spittin’ Jerry (8/19/2019)
(Las Vegas) -- To call “Spittin’ ” Jerry Kaczmarek one of the best to ever play a now-vanished type of pinball game known as a bingo machine is to do...
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Psycho Las Vegas brings the noise to Mandalay Bay (8/15/2019)
(Las Vegas) -- When Psycho Las Vegas lost its Saturday-night headliner, Megadeth, just two months before the festival, organizers Evan Hagen and Ronnie Exley didn’...
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Remembering Treasure Island’s pirate show on Las Vegas Strip (8/9/2019)
(Las Vegas) -- It’s been more than 16 years since the last pirate-themed show outside of TI, then Treasure Island, on the Las Vegas Strip. The original, family-...
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Palace Station, Palms renovations attracting tourists, locals (8/6/2019)
(Las Vegas) -- Red Rock Resorts’ executives are confident renovation projects at Palace Station and the Palms will pay off. Steve Cootey, executive vice president and...
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MGM Springfield
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Looking ahead at future entertainment at MGM Springfield (8/23/2019)
(Massachusetts) -- Some of the biggest announcements to come out of MGM Springfield over the last year have been the concerts. Who's performing where? Is it at the...
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Jamie Kennedy to play 4 shows prior New Year’s Eve at MGM Springfield (8/14/2019)
(Massachusetts) -- Actor-comedian Jamie Kennedy has been booked for four performances at MGM Springfield before New Year’s Eve. Kennedy landed his big break when...
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Joy Harjo
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The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate on How Poetry Can Counter Hate (8/22/2019)
(USA) -- Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet laureate, tells TIME about her new book, ‘An American Sunrise,’ and the state of poetry.
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BOOK: The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate on How Poetry Can Counter Hate (8/22/2019)
(Indian Country) -- Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet laureate, tells TIME about her new book, ‘An American Sunrise,’ and the state of poetry.
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In 'An American Sunrise,' Joy Harjo Speaks With A Timeless Compassion (8/14/2019)
(New Mexico) -- There is occasional confusion about the nature of the United States poet laureateship: The selection of laureate has nothing to do with the president.
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Joy Harjo’s New Poetry Collection Brings Native Issues to the Forefront (8/13/2019)
(Indian Country) -- Seeing Joy Harjo perform live is a transformational experience. The internationally acclaimed performer and poet of the Muscogee (Mvskoke)/Creek...
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Joy Harjo’s stunning new collection and other best poetry collections this month (8/13/2019)
(Indian Country) -- If you read only one book of poems this summer, make it “An American Sunrise” (Norton) by Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be...
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REVIEW: 'An American Sunrise' review: Poet laureate Joy Harjo is an ideal voice for our time (8/11/2019)
(New York) -- In June, Joy Harjo was named the next poet laureate of the United States. While she doesn’t take up the position until October, her new collection,...
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First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Shares a Poem From Her New Book (8/5/2019)
(Oklahoma) -- Joy Harjo is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a two-time American Book Award winner, mostly recently for her memoir, Crazy Brave. She is a...
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Arts Scene: Joy Harjo releases new volume of poetry; 'Oh, Tulsa!' exhibit opens (8/3/2019)
(Oklahoma) -- Joy Harjo, who earlier this year was announced as the next U.S. Poet Laureate, will mark the release of her latest book of poetry, “An American Sunrise,”...
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Seneca Niagara
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Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino to welcome 19th annual Native American Music Awards, Wayne Brady, Mickie James (8/20/2019)
(New York) -- The stars will shine at Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino when the Seneca Niagara Event Center welcomes the 19th annual Native American Music Awards at 7...
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Smiles at MC Hammer outside Seneca Niagara Casino (8/17/2019)
(New York) -- MC Hammer's House Party is quite the whirlwind of personalities, with Sir Mix-a-Lot and Sisqo in tow when Hammertime took over the outdoor venue of...
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Atlantic City Gaming
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Inside Aerosmith’s bizarre little New Jersey concert: review (8/19/2019)
(Atlantic City) -- First, a reality check: The fact that Aerosmith still performs at all, after 50 years on stage — and enough drugs smoked, snorted, shot and...
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Hard Rock
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Hard Rock to salute heroes in September (8/19/2019)
(Atlantic City) -- Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City announced today that they will be presenting a “Celebrate America Parade,” a salute to heroes...
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"One of a Kind!" Frankie Valli LIVE! at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (8/16/2019)
(Atlantic City) -- Strolling the Atlantic City, NJ boardwalk this Friday, August 2, 2019 evening, visitors can see the blue Atlantic and smell the salt air as they hear...
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Exploring The Legacy Of Elvis Presley (8/16/2019)
(Atlantic City) -- Friday marks the 42nd anniversary of the death of music legend Elvis Presley. Last year, Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson spoke to Eugene Jarecki,...
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Jo Koy brings comedy tour to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tulsa (8/16/2019)
(Oklahoma) -- Stand-up sensation Jo Koy launches his “Just Kidding World Tour” and makes a stop at The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - Tulsa on 9...
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All Star Performers Share Their Dominican Republic Experience at Hard Rock Hotel Punta Cana (8/9/2019)
(Dominican Republic) -- American Idol & Dancing with the Stars performers at the Hard Rock Hotel Punta Cana share their experience of living and performing in the...
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Navajo Nation
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NAC: Music Maker: Def-i (8/15/2019)
(Arizona) -- Navajo MC Def-i is out with his fifth album, “Dream Trails.” The musical project opens with a cinematic sound that quickly accelerates with the...
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Netflix doc examines Navajo Nation hoops dreams (8/13/2019)
(New Mexico) -- High school basketball fans in Arizona and New Mexico likely know all about “rez ball” — a run-and-gun, pass-cut-and-shoot style of...
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Basketball Or Nothing: Where are the Chinle Wildcats now? Can they win state next season? (8/12/2019)
(Arizona) -- This summer, viewers were introduced to a new favourite sports team to root for when Basketball Or Nothing was dropped to Netflix on Friday, August 2nd. The...
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Shinnecock Tribe
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'Daily Show with Trevor Noah' to feature digital billboard for Shinnecock Indian Nation (8/15/2019)
(New York) -- Comedy's Central's show "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah' will feature the Shinnecock Indian Nation's digital billboard on Sunrise...
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Trevor Noah's 'Daily Show' films segment about Shinnecock Nation's electronic billboards (8/15/2019)
(New York) -- Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" shot a segment Wednesday at one of the Shinnecock Indian Nation's electronic...
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Cherokee Nation
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Winners Announced for 24th Annual Cherokee Homecoming Art Show (8/14/2019)
(Oklahoma) -- The Cherokee National Historical Society announced the winners of the 24th Annual Cherokee Homecoming Art Show at an awards reception Friday night.
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Cherokee artist inspired by ‘Agitsi’ to fulfill dream (8/3/2019)
(Oklahoma) -- From an artistic family, Brandi Hines carries on the tradition by combining her Cherokee heritage with creativity to craft colorful stained-glass pieces...
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First Nations
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Paul McCartney Stunned By Teen Girl Video Surfacing (8/14/2019)
(North Canada) -- Paul McCartney was stunned by teen girl Emma Stevens’ viral video covering The Beatles classic “Blackbird” surfacing online, and he...
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Saddle Lake Cree Nation girl earns recognition from UNESCO (8/10/2019)
(Canada) -- Bella Morrisseau Whiskeyjack might only be nine years old but she is about to become a published author. Encouraged by a teacher to enter a speech...
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Mohegan Sun
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Nickelback, getting more metal with age, playing Mohegan Sun (8/14/2019)
(Connecticut) -- Success always comes at a cost. There are people lurking out there who want to snipe at artists for being popular. Canadian radio rockers Nickelback...
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Pechanga Casino
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Live and Bush will perform at Pechanga Resort Casino and here’s how to get tickets (8/14/2019)
(California) -- Two alternative rock bands that both put out big albums in 1994, Bush and Live, are on tour together and one of their next Southern California stops is...
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Pocahontas
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‘Pocahontas’ Was Supposed to Be a Disney Crown Jewel – Here’s How It Failed (8/13/2019)
(USA) -- Revisiting the Renaissance is a bi-weekly series in which Josh Spiegel looks back at the history and making of the 13 films of the Disney Renaissance, released...
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Shawnee Tribe
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Thunderbird Casino mural showcases prominent Native Americans (8/13/2019)
(Oklahoma) -- Norman residents that have driven by Thunderbird Casino in recent days likely noticed an addition to their outside scenery. The mural is painted near the...
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MMIW
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Temecula teen’s play tackles tough topic: kidnappings, killings of indigenous women and girls (8/12/2019)
(California) -- Menil, a young Cahuilla girl wearing a red dress, strums a guitar as she sings. A dark figure appears behind her. She screams and struggles as the...
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New mural at MSUB highlights missing and murdered indigenous women (8/11/2019)
(Montana) -- For the past three weeks, artist Terri Porta has been using spray paint to transform a wall at Montana State University Billings into a piece of art that...
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Mural in Santa Fe underscores violence against Indigenous women (8/10/2019)
(New Mexico) -- The Cochiti artists and siblings Diego and Mateo Romero have painted a mural of Native American women outside Santa Fe’s Museum of Indian Arts and...
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Sports Leagues
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NFL Expands Partnership With Sportradar to Broaden Reach Into Future of Betting (8/12/2019)
(USA) -- On Monday, the National Football League expanded its partnership with one of the industry’s top sports data companies, Sportradar. The broadened deal...
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Facts about Allegiant Air, Las Vegas stadium’s naming rights partner (8/5/2019)
(Las Vegas) -- With Allegiant Air being chosen as the stadium naming rights partner of the Raiders’ $1.9 billion Las Vegas stadium, now is a good time to bring...
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Federal Recognition
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OP/ED: Indian Market’s exclusions are a pity (8/9/2019)
(New Mexico) -- American Indian artist Peggy Fontenot, a member of the Patawomeck tribe, makes a living by selling her black-and-white photography and intricate beadwork...
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Forest County Potawatomi
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Potawatomi launches annual Heart of Canal Street campaign (8/9/2019)
(Wisconsin) -- Potawatomi Hotel & Casino this week kicked off its annual Heart of Canal Street campaign, which will benefit 31 area children’s charitable...
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Tigua Tribe
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El Paso rock n' roll drummer returns home to raise money for shooting victims (8/9/2019)
(Texas) -- El Paso native and ‘Escape the Fate' drummer Robert Ortiz is returning to the Sun City for fundraising efforts. On Saturday, he plans to raise money...
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Cultural Appropriation
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Exhibition of First Nations headdresses explores issues of diversity and cultural appropriation (8/7/2019)
(Montreal) -- Tahatie Montour has been making traditional Haudenosaunee headdresses for over a decade and says his skills could transfer to another profession. "A...
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Poarch Creek
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Jamey Johnson set to Kick-off Poarch Band of Creek Indians Alabama 200 Native Concert Series in Montgomery (8/7/2019)
(Alabama) -- Alabama born artist Jamey Johnson, with special guest Whatley & Co., is coming home to Alabama to kick-off the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Alabama...
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Caesars
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Casinos, Hotels & Frank Sinatra: The History of Caesars Entertainment (8/5/2019)
(Las Vegas) -- Are you not entertained!? Two cabana motel owners and a vision of a hotel where the atmosphere would make everyone staying feel like a Caesar. Jay Sarno...
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Crow Tribe
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Crow Fair Celebration Powwow and Rodeo 2019 (8/4/2019)
(Montana) -- Attracting more than 50,000 spectators and participants from around the world and named one of the biggest powwows in the country, by the Apsáalooke people...
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Hopi Tribe
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Painting the sacred: Hopi painter finds his way back to art, culture (8/4/2019)
(Arizona) -- As the Museum Fire tore at the Peaks, the little boy asked his mother where the katsinas, spirit beings considered very important in Hopi culture, were...
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LGBTQ
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MTV’s Catfish 'Native American Love Story' getting considerable backlash (8/3/2019)
(Arizona) -- MTV released it’s latest season seven episode of a “Native American Love Story” in which a Navajo woman and single mother Shirlene was led...
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Other News
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'It brings so much joy to me': Students become teachers at Iqaluit Music Camp (8/24/2019)
(North Canada) -- Naiome Eegeesiak was six years old when she first saw somebody play the fiddle, and told her mom, "I want to do that." The next summer,...
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Santa Fe photographer captures daily life of isolated Mexican indigenous tribe (8/24/2019)
(New Mexico) -- The cacophony of flutes and drums hypnotizes as the Cora people do battle dotted and striped in the black and white of Holy Week. The spice of incense...
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A Potter On His One-Of-A-Kind UNM Class (8/23/2019)
(New Mexico) -- There's a unique class available in UNM's 2019 catalog. Introduction to Pueblo Pottery (Studio Arts 389) focuses on "gathering raw materials...
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Photographer Adam Sings In The Timber Wants To Change The Way You See Native America (8/23/2019)
(Wyoming) -- Crow Fair is unlike any other Powwow in the world. For one, horses and their riders have the right of way on roads throughout the Powwow grounds. It also...
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Wabanaki artists honored at largest Native American art show in the world (8/23/2019)
(Maine) -- Wabanaki artists took home an array of honors at this year’s Santa Fe Indian Market, held last weekend in New Mexico, with one Passamaquoddy artist...
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AUDIO: New Exhibit Displays Dozens Of Indigenous Maps From 16th Century Mexico (8/23/2019)
(Mexico) -- An exhibition in Austin, Texas, displays maps from 16th century Mexico. They were created by indigenous peoples to help Spanish invaders map occupied lands....
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Storming Area 51 started as a joke. But it’s a mystery as to how many will show up (8/23/2019)
(Las Vegas) -- It was supposed to be a fun joke. Create an event on Facebook that was so absurd, everyone would have a laugh, share a meme and then move on with their...
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The George Washington murals were meant to make viewers uncomfortable (8/22/2019)
(Washington) -- At the height of the Great Depression, a Russian artist was paid by the US government to paint a series of murals in a San Francisco high school. The 1,...
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Cree rapper Hellnback opens up about kidney disease diagnosis (8/22/2019)
(Winnipeg) -- As one of the first Indigenous rappers to get on MuchMusic, Karmen Omeasoo aka Hellnback has blazed a trail in the music industry by rapping about the...
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Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Shattered Gender and Race Expectations in 19th-Century America (8/22/2019)
(Washington D.C.) -- Kidnapped, beaten and left to die, Edmonia Lewis, a talented artist with both African and Native-American ancestry, refused to abandon her dreams....
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At the Santa Fe Indian Market, Tradition and Innovation Collide (8/22/2019)
(New Mexico) -- The Santa Fe Indian Market in New Mexico has served as a creative hub for indigenous artists from a variety of tribes across North America to sell their...
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NAC: Radio’s enduring connection (8/22/2019)
(Indian Country) -- It’s National Radio Day and we’re celebrating by highlighting a small sample of the radio stations that maintain an important place in...
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Squamish Nation weavers part of Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency (8/22/2019)
(British Columbia) -- Each stitch dips into the past. Each stitch holds the future. Chepximiya Siyam’ Janice George’s love of weaving began when she looked at a photo...
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Swinomish Indie Rocker Black Belt Eagle Scout on How to Do Indigenous Land Acknowledgement the Right Way (8/22/2019)
(Washington) -- Scroll all the way down on the Seattle Art Museum’s website and you’ll find the following line: “The Seattle Art Museum acknowledges...
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Women’s perspective gives new look to cinema showcase (8/22/2019)
(Arizona) -- It was clear that something had changed at the Santa Fe Indian Market’s Native Cinema Showcase. The selected films didn’t look through the lens...
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At the Santa Fe Indian Market, Tradition and Innovation Collide (8/22/2019)
(New Mexico) -- The Santa Fe Indian Market in New Mexico has served as a creative hub for indigenous artists from a variety of tribes across North America to sell their...
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Tura To Transport The Kimberleys To Victoria ACT And NSW (8/22/2019)
(Australia) -- Tura New Music (WA) will take its highly acclaimed Kimberley Echoes to Victoria, ACT and NSW in November and December, the result of 5 years of...
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Casino gets last laugh (8/22/2019)
(Nevada) -- In 1972, a fledgling comedy team from South Dakota performed for the first time at the Lounge inside the Commercial Hotel and Casino. Williams & Ree,...
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Alice Walker Defends George Washington Murals (8/21/2019)
(California) -- Alice Walker has entered the fray over New Deal-era murals at a public school in San Francisco that depict George Washington at Mount Vernon with black...
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This Native American artist should have been a household name. But he died at 31. (8/21/2019)
(Washington D.C.) -- What if he had 30, or 50 more years? The question that haunts the work of Mozart, Keats and Basquiat also makes the work of T.C. Cannon seem, at...
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